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One view of Rwanda: a country developing at dizzying speed, clean and safe. Another view: a nation steeped in trauma — a word that didn’t even exist in the local language before the horrific slaughters and rapes of the genocide 20 years ago.

Unlike most African countries, Rwanda is made up not of hundreds of competing tribes, but three castes that share the same religion, language and more or less the same culture. The majority Hutu farmers (85 per cent of the population), the minority Tutsi cattle owners (14 per cent) and the labourer and servant Twa (one per cent) got along relatively well for hundreds of years.

The controversy over the proper scope of immunity in Canada has pitted those who argue the letter of the law and the necessity of immunity for the conduct of international relations on the one hand; and those for whom torture is now recognized as so unconscionable that it should never be covered by immunity. In its ruling last week, the Supreme Court handed the first camp a victory. Now it's up to Parliament to act.

The aerial bombardments had already begun by the time the United Nations Security Council unanimously endorsed U.S. President Barack Obama’s resolution Wednesday to beat back the extremists who have laid political claim to a broad swath of Syria and Iraq. The world has begun to respond to the threat posed by the so-called Islamic State with military air strikes that may well see troops from Western countries on the ground very soon. At the same time, this week’s binding UN resolution also calls for domestic anti-terror policies to be revamped to staunch the flow of foreign fighters to the front lines of jihadist-triggered conflicts.

Jeremy Becker’s long-term plan for the business he inherited, Rubenstein Bros., 150 years old this year, was to leave. “Every entrepreneur’s dream is to get out,” said Becker, who prefers the title outgoing president to former president.

Unused capital losses and the tax implications of living elsewhere were among the topics raised in the latest batch of reader letters. Here’s what they wanted to know. Q: My father passed away in 2013 and willed everything to his spouse. All the investments were rolled over to her and there were no dispositions. He had no capital gains that year, but $8,000 of losses carried forward from previous years. Is there any way to use those losses?

Canada is adopting a G8 initiative that would require companies to disclose any payments they make to governments, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Wednesday in London at a meeting with oil, gas and mining executives.

CALGARY — TransCanada Corp. said Friday its controversial and long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline will be in service months later than expected and cost more than its current US$5.3 billion pricetag as it continues to await U.S. government approval.

MONTREAL — Don’t call it smuggling. It’s a familiar refrain from the Mohawk vendors who sneak millions of cigarettes into Canada from the United States each year. The Mohawks insist they’re just taking the tobacco from one end of their backyard to the other.

There will be some greener ships plying its waters, possibly a Canada-Europe free-trade deal and presumably a still-strengthening U.S. economy. All of which could augur well this year for the St. Lawrence Seaway, which launched its 55th season Friday.

At a press conference, Bellucci said the reason she’s here shooting Ville-Marie is simple. She was blown away by Édoin’s screenplay and loved the role he was proposing for her. She was even more sold on coming here to work with Édoin after she watched Marécages.

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